Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1912 to 1914) 🇺🇸
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“There! you’re the wappiest looking little ‘wap’ ever” |
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“I write, produce and take the lead in my own pictures. My record so far is to write and produce a picture in six hours. Easy!” |
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“I was the first legitimate star to go into pictures” |
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“I’ve never been interviewed by a girl in my life” |
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“Air is food and drink to me. Really” |
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“I like pictures so well that I’m anxious to like the making of them” |
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“I try to be funny in my appearance and my actions on the screen: funny but never repulsive. Always odd, but never repulsive” |
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“I threw my coat at somebody and ran down the middle of that howling crowd” |
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“It’s five years since I went into picture work” |
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“In the fall one wants to be right in New York; there is everything one wants in New York” |
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Clara Kimball Young (March 1914) “Fat? It’s the new kind of skin-food I’m using!” |
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Clara Kimball Young (September 1914) “I want to play every variety of emotion. I love the dramatic and I intend to reveal it; I like good comedy, too; but I do not care about burlesque” |
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“Terrible times I’ve had in New York — terrible!” |
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“I just love the work because there is always something new and the players have time to live like real people” |
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“‘Lab-a-die’ is the correct way, but I don’t mind how it is pronounced. It should have been ‘Smith’” |
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“If I was dressed as a messenger boy, it must have been a hot day” |
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“I seemed to fill the requirement of the youthful lead, so here I’ve been ever since” |
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“There’s always more fun in doing what one shouldn’t do” |
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“Fiery red [hair was] the curse of my young life, but thank heaven, I was spared watery blue eyes” |
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“Affectation spoils any picture for me — but there are people who seem to believe in it” |
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“My work in pictures has earned me the title ‘dare-devil.’ There is nothing I have been asked to do that I didn’t do” |
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“I’m dreadful at higher mathematics” |
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“I can express any emotion, interrogative or otherwise, with my eye-brows.” |
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“It’s been a rush from one scene to another and from the studio to the dressing-room and back again. And that’s what I love — lots of rush” |
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George Periolat (December 1912) “Photoplays are the greatest things in the world, today; and they’ve just started. The players who get into them now, while the profession is still young, are lucky” |
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We don’t work on the picture every day, but when we do, we work hard” |
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“If you don’t mind, we can talk while I dress for the next scene”
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If others were as critical as I, I’m afraid people wouldn’t like my work at all.” |
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“I put my foot in my mouth every time I open it, and I can’t tell you any pretty tales to make a story out of; all I can do is tell you the truth” |
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“Where did I put that lemon? I should have swallowed it long ago, but I forgot. It helps my voice, you know” |
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“Appearance is a study, and clothes are as much a part of this study as grease-paint and wig” |
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“There’s room for me out-of-doors” |
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“I like my work, I like the Edison people, and my husband and I have the best times in the world” |
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“Not that I would have objected to becoming president of the bank, some day, but there were several men ahead of me who would have had to die first” |
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“I believe too, that the object should be to project thought, in making a meaning clear instead of gesticulating. These are simple methods, but simplicity always scores strongest” |
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“I’m usually cast as ‘heavy’ but in the picture we came here to make, I have a straight part. The character and I last throughout the four reels.” |
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“I can do the most daring things and not get a scratch, but the minute I try something easy I nearly lose my life” |
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“It’s necessary to be in touch with things right at their heart, with all due respect to Jersey.” |
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“I began my stage work as a quartet” |